So, what’s up today? First, if you’re out there in the Bay area, make a point to go and see Marc at the Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary St in San Francisco. If you’re out here on my side of the country, you can join the SU Homecoming weekend festivities, which, other than the SU-Pittsburgh football game, I don’t really know what’s going on. But, Syracuse is going for four straight wins against the 4-1 Panthers. Pitt isn’t exactly a powerhouse, which is a good thing, because, in spite of three straight wins (improving over last year by 300%), SU isn’t exactly the cream of the crop either. If you’re somewhere in between Syracuse and San Francisco (and, really, who isn’t?), I hope you have an enjyable day, no matter what you do.
Oh, and, you know what? If it takes a goddamn pervert scandal to make the rest of the world see what a bunch of conniving, incompetent weasels the Republicans are, then fine. Katrina was the first crack in their armor, and if this is what it takes to show the true believers how morally bankrupt this bunch is (yeah, yeah, you’da thunk it was already quite apparent before this), well then so be it. I just hope no kids lives were completely destroyed in all of this. God help Denny and the gang if this turns out to be even worse than it already is.
See ya.
St. Justina of Padua
Feastday: October 7
All that is known of Justina of Padua is from an apparent twelfth-century forgery that says she was baptized by St. Prosdocimus, a disciple of St. Peter and reputed first bishop of Padua, and was then martyred for her faith. Her feast day is October 7.
:priest:
Check this out, SJS:
http://www.singingnunthemusical.com/home.html
🙁
I meant :spank: because I was up all night
Dominique -nique -nique s’en allait tout simplement,
Routier, pauvre et chantant.
En tous chemins, en tous lieux,
Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu,
Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu
:priest:
I just woke up.
I’m going to have to sleep later. I watched Bush’s Brain
In 2006, a fictionalized musical comedy loosely based on the events in Jeanine Deckers’ life was staged during the New York Musical Theater Festival. The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun, was written by Blair Fell (book [based on an earlier non-musical play he wrote] and additional lyrics) and Andy Monroe (music and lyrics). The action follows the renamed character Jeanine Fou’s life from her entry into the convent until her suicide with her companion Annie.
We may have a gig Tuesday. 😐
yeah? that sounds….good???
so where are you guys going to play?
Some place called “Loveless Lounge” or something.
so…that’s good!
We don’t practice all Summer, but live on the legend and legacy of rehearsal recordings, word of mouth and fanzine association. What the fuck is that all about?
What was on the other side of Bush’s Brain?
well people obviously remember what you sound like and want you to play. But rehearsals wouldn’t hurt …
not sure, I have to check…I shut it right off and tried to sleep
I think Karl Rove’s mug was in my dream (that isn’t good)
not sure but that may be why I woke up and slept for like a half hour in total
SJ-
Do you know who Daniel Johnston is?
doesn’t sound familiar
Daniel Johnston is a Texas-based outsider singer/artist.
Daniel Dale Johnston (b. January 22, 1961 in Sacramento, California) is a prolific American singer, songwriter and artist. Johnston, who suffers from bipolar disorder[1] and often writes surreal songs about his hallucinations and mood swings, has been classified as an outsider musician. He currently lives in Waller, Texas.
His songs are typically painfully direct, and often display a disturbing blend of childlike naïvete with darker, “spooky” themes. Johnston’s singing voice is rather high-pitched, and his performances often seem faltering or uncertain; one critic writes that Johnston’s recordings range from “spotty to brilliant.”[2]
He also draws and paints, and his illustrations have been featured with most of his albums.
I wasn’t laughing at Daniel Johnston, I had posts show up three times for a minute and had to delete
The year was 1990 and it was WFMU broadcasting out of Upsala College in New Jersey. Even to this day, WFMU is the greatest free form radio station in America and is now broadcasting on the web. This broadcast was a one-hour radio special that they were promoting for an entire week. This was while Daniel was in the mental hospital in West Virginia. He was promoting his new gospel album, which was called 1990. Everyone I knew that week in Hoboken, New York, Brooklyn ran out and bought that album because we were already Daniel Johnston fans from the early cassettes and we were glued to the radio, we didn’t know what was going to happen. Daniel phoned in from the hospital and he put on this elaborate performance with his two cassette decks and it truly was much, much scarier than the Orson Welles War of the Worlds. I’ve heard that broadcast, I’m a big Orson Welles fan, but I don’t know how anyone can hear that and think it’s real. This was so much scarier because this was too real. Daniel interviewed himself in multiple voices, Daniel’s obsession with fame came out, his obsession with the devil…it was all there. He did elaborate comedy skits—he is very funny—in which he played all the characters including the female parts, he took calls from the listening audience and I phoned in and talked to Daniel and that was how we met. And then I got the idea to make the film right after that was over.
sounds like someone worth checking out. I think some of the story sounds familiar now, somebody must have mentioned him before I think
Daniel Johnston is very much an outsider like Jandek, Wesley Willis and that other guy. Anyway, there was a rumour going around that he had died in 2004. There is a tribute album titled “The Late Great Daniel Johnston.” There is a headstone on the album 1961-2004. On the other hand, I would also read about him being in the present tense. Confusion big time. He is still alive, I am happy to report. Very over weight, too.
Wikipedia reports him as being alive
“In 2006, Johnston collaborated with Osaka Popstar, supplying backing vocals on their upcoming album. They also covered his song “Wicked World.”
He was hospitalized a year or two before that and cancelled a tour – that might have been the origin of the death rumors
No. Rumours were planned. A hoax!
that sucks…
In August 2005, it was reported that Johnston had been experiencing mood swings requiring medical attention [4]. This led to cancellation of his touring schedule.
On November 25, 2005, Johnston was hospitalized for what appeared to be lithium poisoning [5] (Johnston takes lithium to control his bipolar disorder). His father had found him in an incoherent state and unable to walk.
On December 8, 2005, it was reported that his condition remained “very serious” [6], but on 23 December, Johnston was released from the hospital. Johnston’s family had been told that “Daniel would require long-term medical care and permanent dialysis for kidney failure”; however, his health dramatically and unexpectedly improved. [7]
In 2006, Johnston collaborated with Osaka Popstar, supplying backing vocals on their upcoming album. They also covered his song “Wicked World.”
In April 2006, Filter Magazine reported that the Johnston family’s Eternal Yip Eye Music label would soon release Johnston’s first greatest hits compilation, Welcome to My World.[8]
In May and June 2006, Houston-based theater group Infernal Bridegroom Productions created and performed the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle, based on Johnston’s music and in partial collaboration with Johnston; his late-2005 health crisis limited his input, however.
In 2006 Johnston appeared on The Henry Rollins Show as the musical guest, and performed “Mask” and “Care Less” (the latter was exclusive to the internet). Both can be viewed in the video section of the IFC page for Rollins’ show.[9]
I may have been predisposed to believing Johnston had died because Wesley Willis, a similar Outsider” had indeed died recently.
Wesley Willis
Wesley Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an African-American musician and artist from Chicago, Illinois. A diagnosed schizophrenic, he gained a sizeable cult following in the 1990s after releasing several hundred songs of unique but simple music, with emphasis on his stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Most of his exposure came as
lithium is a bad drug. I know people with bipolar have trouble dealing with it, even though they need it. I really do hope they come up with a safer/better drug for bipolar disorder
I like Daniel Johnston’s cartoons
Update! Wesley Willis dead at age 40. You will be missed Wesley. RIP. Aug. 21, 2003
Those two Louisiana filmmakers met Wesley Willis in Baton Rouge. He gave one of them a headbutt.
aww 🙁
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❓ whatever :sheep: le
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Why did Condoleezza Rice come to Israel and the West Bank earlier this week?
By all accounts, the US secretary of state had no fresh ideas to offer to revive what used to be called the Middle East peace process.
Both the Palestinian and Israeli sides have governments too weak to handle any major initiative.
Aides on all sides played down the prospects of any progress. It seems they were right. So why come at all?
Many Arab and Israeli commentators have found the same answer: Iran.
http://tinyurl.com/hckom
but then
Threats to Iran unacceptable: Russia foreign ministry
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia and China agree that using or threatening force against Iran is unacceptable and presenting Tehran with ultimatums is counter-productive, Interfax news agency quoted a Russian Deputy Foreign Minister as saying.
“The positions of our two countries coincides that the use of force or the threat to use force is absolutely unacceptable,” the agency quoted Alexander Alexeyev as saying on Friday when asked about Russian and Chinese policy on Iran.
“Talking to them (Tehran) in the language of ultimatums and attempts to force them into a corner are counter-productive,” Interfax quoted him as saying.
http://tinyurl.com/jo4d3
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Life might be really exciting for a hour or two if Bush presses ahead with his stupidity..:eek:
Do you really, in your heart of hearts, see a massive strike on Iran just prior to the vote [by us, not israel] as a probability? It would be so transparently a wag the dog, and our troops in iraq would pay a large price, oil would shoot through the roof [how do the Repubs get a massive turnout with $4 gas]? i asked Dana Priest of WaPo this question on an online chat, and she basically said its an insane idea with 99 reasons not to do it for every one, but with this group in charge, she wouldn’t be surprised. :sammy:
Ploser apparently put forward her agenda for the first 100 days of the democraptichouse last Thursday while it was Foley 24/7.. It must have been really a pile of BS since it won’t even Google ..In any case without 2/3 of both the house and the senate ( needed to override a veto) nothing will happen. A bunch of noise to no avail:gate::omg: :jason::jason::jason:
Except for subpoena power. What was the percentage of Dem control of the two houses in 1973? Did it matter that much? Its really a question of leadership.
Ploser already said she wasn’t going to try to impeach Bush.. To get him out of office requires a 2/3 vote in both the house and the senate . It would again be a great destraction to keep the subject off of what counts. . Not having a 2/3 majority in both houses makes any political effort useless. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
Nixon was not impeached .. The house introduced legislation to do it and he resigned before it got to a vote. Bush has his head to far up his A* to resign. :barf:
An anesthesiologist whose medical training was financed by the Army must be discharged from the Army Reserve as a conscientious objector, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
Dr. Mary Hanna, for whom the Army paid approximately $184,000 to attend the Tufts University School of Medicine, had been scheduled to report to active duty Tuesday at Fort Bliss, Texas. Last December, as she neared the end of her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Hanna notified the Army that her renewed religious beliefs were now incompatible with military service.
An Army review board last month rejected Hanna’s request after considering whether Hanna, a captain, objected to service in the armed forces on sincere religious grounds, or whether she sought to evade her commitment.
In yesterday’s ruling, US Judge Nancy Gertner discounted as “irrelevant to impermissible to unsubstantiated” the conclusions of an Army chaplain who urged, in part, that Hanna’s application be rejected because her Coptic Orthodox faith does not teach pacifism.
http://tinyurl.com/ffgxh
If Bush were to attack Iran the major effects of what would happen would not begin to effect people other than in the gas tank until next year then the thugs media will just blame it on having these democraps running the house.. Most Americans are too stupid to know that was not true. If China was to call the debt we owe them there would be 30% inflation , the crap shoot.. err. stock market .. would collapse and half our consumer goods would disappear from the shelves. The SBR would resemble Argentina in the 1990’s . The thug media will just say look… look.. see what happens when you elect democrats .. I think those in congress see this and that’s why they are not running very hard. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
University of California, San Francisco, researchers who tracked the city’s transients found that between 1990 and 2003, their median age rose from 37 to 46 — aging at a rate much faster than the nation as a whole. Those 50 or older represented 11 percent of the participants at the beginning of the study and 30 percent at the end, according to Judith Hahn, the lead author.
Hahn and her colleagues found similar trends in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and New York.
That has implications for governments, which may find housing the chronically homeless is cheaper than treating the health problems exacerbated by aging on the streets.
http://tinyurl.com/zdfrm
Most of the workers in cities departments of social services see the homeless as a real problem along with the elderly that are barely hanging on. Their typically thug dominated city councils simply refuse to listen.. Instead of doing the right thing its just politics all the time..
Rtubugs are 👿
Rethugs must be eliminated :gate::omg:
The White House is in full panic mode trying to find a way to spin the now-admitted fact that George Tenet did indeed brief Condi Rice on July 10, 2001 about the terror threat. The latest damage control approach has been to claim that the report was “nothing new”.
So how come when then-Attorney General John Ashcroft heard the same warning a week later, he immediately stopped flying commercial aircraft?
Christy Hardin Smith at FDL runs down a bunch of the story of the July 10, 2001 terror briefing Condi somehow failed to remember. She also touches on the fact that George Tenet gave the same warning to John Ashcroft exactly a week later.
It seems to me that we ought to be asking whether that story has anything to do with this one, dated July 26, 2001:
Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.
In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a “threat assessment” by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.
“There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines,” an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.
Got that? July 17 — Ashcroft briefed. July 28 — Ashcroft flies in a charter, leased, according to the article, earlier that week.
Seems to me this could be another blockbuster. If Ashcroft decided that commercial flights were too dangerous based on the same warning as Rice (who presumably wasn’t flying commercial flights either) ignored, we have ourselves some rather dramatic evidence of callous indifference and willingness on the part of the Bush Administration to put the preservation of their own hides before their duty. It will be tough for Rice to argue that the briefing was nothing new if it scared Ashcroft away from flying with commercial airlines.
posted by bluememe at 10/04/2006
bluememe.blogspot.com
Most social services workers see government in the SBR as a joke that can not cope with the most severe problems of the society. The private sector can see no profit in doing anything about the problems and :eek::yuck::crap: the politicians just can’t say the t* word. The thug ideology is that it was their fault for not savings a half a million during the time they were working. With all the people around here that seem to be living in their homes without being able to pay their utilities during the summer one must just hope for a mild winter. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
Hey everyone,
I’m going to broadcast the first disc of Bob Woodward’s book, “State of Denial” at 8:30 a.m. (Central Time). Follow this link to listen, http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
Playing Michael Buble till 8:30
Pelosi’s “First 100 Days” is all over the place, including here.
Actually, impeachment requires a simple majority vote in the House. If passed, a trial takes place in the Seante, it then requires a 2/3 majority to convict.
Never mind Pelosi saying she wasn’t going to impeach. She didn’t say it the way I would have (nobody ever listens to me), but I’d have said “we’re going to do real investigation, and, after thorough investigation, if the president and vice-president haven’t done anythgin wrong, then of course we won’t impeach him.”
Let’s see, the 93rd Congress had 242 Democrats, 192 Republicans, and one Independent, who caucused with the Democrats. Three articles of impeachent came out of the House Judiciary Committee (hint, John Conyers would be the Chairman if the Democrate take control in November), passing, 27-11 (Abuse of Power), 28-10 (Obstruction of Justice), and 21-17 (Contempt of Congress). When it became clear that the House would, indeed impeach him, Nixon quit.
Over in the Senate (56 Democrats, 42 Republicans, 1 Conservative, and 1 Independent), a “Select” Committee was established (with Sam Ervin as Chairman), which held televised hearings (used to scurry home from school to watch every day, with my mom). That’s where the existence of the tapes came out. It’s also where it became clear that Nixon was up to his ass in the coverup, and where he lost all support.
All because of the Majority party had subpoena power, and the ability to investigate.
If we impeach Bush, would we not also need to impeach Chaney, who would become President after Bush?
Personally, I say impeach Cheney first. That should pretty much kill the last two years of the administration.
Gluten tag :joe: I think I need socks this morning, it’s a bit chilly :cold: a crisp 70 degrees!
Two years of investigations by House and Senate Committees can pretty much render Bush impotent and just about guarantee the election of a Democrat for President in 08. We must play our cards carefully should we win both the House and the Senate. Rethugs still have a card to play – steal the elections. They are good at that!
A bit crisp here, as well. 44 degrees according to my outdoor thermometer (part of my nifty little wireless weather forecaster thing, that I got for answering a billion Harris Poll questions). No sure how cold it got last night, but it’s supposed to be a sunny 68 today, which is pretty much perfect (even a little too warm).
Yahoo says Bham is 59. I donno. I don’t have an outdoor thermometer.
What bothers me lately is hearing Franken and Maddow talk about dealing with Bush through 2008, as if they aren’t even going to TRY to impeach him. I agree with PJ, it would be smarter to impeach Cheney first. You’d be getting 2 birds with one stone. But then there’s Rove. How do we neuter him?
Absolutely. The first thing that needs to happen is Bushco needs to neutered. The Republicans are enabling him – even the supposed “moderate” ones are terrified to defy them. Most – many, anyway – of the Democrats have been pretty spineless, too. That has to stop.
We don’t want the Republicans to claim that “it was the Democrats that caused us to lose Iraq.” If Iraq goes down we want it to be obvious to all, “this was Bush’s folly.”
Real investigations may quite easily take care of Rove. And he doesn’t even have to be impeached before he goes to jail. You see the way these Republicans are falling all over each other, trying to throw each other under the bus over Foley. Imagine when some real shit starts to come out over War Profiteering, fake intelligence, torture, illegal wiretaps, FISA felony violations, you name it. They’ll be like rats, eating each other trying to jump overboard.
Hey, we already “won” in Iraq. We went there to do regime change, as far as I can tell (still not quite sure why we needed to do regime change, but, whatever), we did that. Now we can get our guys and gals out of there, and unfortunately we’ll have to pump a lot of money into the place to make up for what “we’ve” done, but being targets over there only incites the violence.
We don’t want to be seen as “overreaching.” I want Bush out of office more than anyone. But I’m uncertain if impeachment is the way. Such could lead to the Democrats losing in 08.
So I’m for pulling out of Iraq altogether. And I am not for rebuilding Iraq. Let them fend for themselves. We liberated them. If they haven’t the guts to fight for freedom they don’t deserve it.
That’s when you need Democrats with spine. To get out there and start telling the truth forcefully like Bill Clinton and Olbermann have been doing. We need to get rid of spineless dems also.
I’ll be curious to see if Libertarians and other third party candidates will get a bigger chunk of the vote this Nov because conservatives will be so frustrated over the Foley thing. So many conservatives would rather not vote than vote for a democrat.
Nah, not at all. All you do is investigate. Hold public, televised hearings with everybody under oath. Just like with Nixon, if you get real crimes out of it that lead to impeachment, then the whole country will be on board. If not, get all the rats in jail, keep it all out there in the news so everybody can see what a bunch of crooks they are (and, yeah, you really gotta shove “the peoples'” noses in it to get them to fucking wake up), and then hope somebody you actually like runs in ’08 (I’m kinda liking Edwards, at this point, but it’s a long way off; also liked what Kerry had to say on Bill Maher last night).
I would rather see Dems not worry so much about how they will be percieved. I think that is one of their biggest problems right now and it leads them to become spineless. I think conservatives would have more respect if they came out swinging, even if they didn’t agree with what they were saying.
I’m still mad at Kerry for being so spineless after 2004. 😡
We need to learn a lession from Bush’s folly. We are not our brother’s keeper. We are not big brother to the world. Respect the sovereighty of other nations of the world. If a nation is capable of developing nuclear weapons who are we to tell them what they can or cannot do? I realize the danger of nuclear proliferation, but the genie is out of the proverbial bottle. There is no turning back to an eventual meltdown. We are doomed in the end!
It doesn’t matter what dems say or do, rethugs will always spin it. So you just have to be true and say what you feel is right. John Edwards was saying the same thing last week on David Benders’ show. I believe he is right.
Just get stuff like the war profiteering out there and proven, and then the either incompetence or deliberate involvement before, during and after 9/11, and the people will be begging for these guys to go to jail.
Perhaps being overly dramatic in my last post! he he re: 73
Well, we can be big brother to the world – just not big asshole. Call people evil (and then feign indignance when they call you the same), invade their next door neighbors, and you can bet they’re gonna want nukes. But ya gotta talk to these people. Pissing ’em off, insulting their leaders, that doesn’t work. It’s lighting a fuse that we really don’t want to light.
If the United States is to be Big Brother to the world then we will need to reinstitute the draft. Is anyone here really in favor of that?
Well, these rethugs don’t know how to talk. They’ve been lying and propagandizing for so long they have forgotten, or, in the case of the youngsters, they never learned. They think diplomacy means getting the upper hand in a deal. They are slime.
‘we have ourselves some rather dramatic evidence of callous indifference and willingness on the part of the Bush Administration to put the preservation of their own hides before their duty.”
More evidence? This gives me the giggles. We don’t have enough file space to hold all the evidence we got already!
The last 35-40% will never be moved. Never. We don’t need more evidence. If a Dem majority has sufficient balls and brains, impeachment can happen. Huge if there. It takes leadership; look what, lacking even a legitimate victory in 2000, the Cheney/Rove/Bush cabal has ‘achieved’ for the forces of evil.
And what also is worth remembering is that Nixon was only one year and change removed from the most devastating electoral defeat ever handed to the Dems [at that time] before he was forced to resign. Bush’s current popularity, for more than one year, is almost the exact opposite of Nixon’s. :sammy:
Yes, agree with you PJ. We must respect the leaders of the worlds nations whoever they may be. And we must not close the doors. We must talk with all nations. All must be included in the United Nations. With time perhaps these tin horn dictators will see the value of the respect of the other nations of the world. Respect they must earn.
Actually, I think a draft is a good idea. Then we’ll see how many flag waving, foam-mouthed “patriots” we have out there. But big brother, not in the sense of invading and occupying, but in terms of our incredible logistical and financial abilities to reach out to anyplace on earth and do good. That’s what we do well. At least, we used to. Do some good for people, ask for nothing in return, and stay the hell out of their politics, and we won’t need to invade countries. Also, put all this Iraq money into developing alternative energy reources, and we won’t need to keep out boot on the neck of the Middle East.
I like how you think PJ. You really need to podcast bro!
ok, I’m broadcasting dead air. State of denial is over. Back to music I guess.
Suz —
Re #34 Lithium — I recently had a patient in the hospital — young woman in her 20’s w/ history of bipolar who lost a kidney because of Lithium toxicity. Had a failed transplant and in renal failure on hemodialysis in her late 20’s. :omg: 😮 Very scary. Guess her MD wasn’t monitoring her Lithium blood levels closely enough or she was not taking it according to directions — whatever — very very scary.:reaper:
All drugs are dangerous and all are toxic & need to be used with great care and mindfulness when needed. Drug companies have an iron grip on how medicine is practiced in this country because they fund so much of the “education” in medical schools. It’s not about making people healthy, it’s about keeping them sick so that more $$$$ can be made.:yuck:
Just be very careful about any meds you need to take, Blogsibs, and make sure you are fully informed about side effects and interactions with food and other drugs. You don’t want to blow out your kidneys or liver which are the main mechanisms that clear drugs from your system after they are finished doing whatever they do.:nuts:
http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
Well, I dunno. I think it can go lower. How low? I dunno. There will always be people who will never see, and there will always be single-issue voters, whether it’s gay marriage, or jeezus in the classroom or whatever. You’ll never get them. The “left” is like that, too. Lots of single issue people – or people who indignantly vote for a third-party candidate, because the one that has an actual chance of winning isn’t perfect in their eyes.
I’m so glad I grew up with a mom who hates doctors. I come across so many people that have to take something prescribed and I always wonder if they could live without it.
Well, remember, Cnick lives in ‘Bama.
m kay I am signed on to skype: cnickthomas
So knock Bush’s 37% or whatever down to 27% – what difference does it make? Over 50% despise the prick,and have for more than a year. Even Nixon, after he resigned, after every sentient being down to the squirrels knew he was a crook , a liar, and a disgrace, had more than 25% approval. Why worry about the extra chromosome crowd? Its like the guy who enters a room to applause and worries that there’s one guy in the corner who didn’t clap. :sammy:
you mean like that PJ guy that isnt voting for hillary?
yeah i live in bushlovers country usa.
Hey cnick, is this Michael Buble?
I think Katrina really (finally) opened a lot of eyes. Now that people have decided Bush is both incompetent and a liar, every new thing that gets piled on will just make more of an impression, and any “good” news (say, the stock market, which we’re supposed to give a shit about, but doesn’t do most of any good) is ignored or dismissed. I’ll tell ya what worries me, though, is this Wal-Mart indoctrination and voter registration.
That would be Maron :rofl2:
Hah. Yeah, Sean. Except if the election gets close, you can bet I’ll vote for Hillary. I may want to send her a message, but I’m not
stupid enoughidealogically pure enough to put this John Spencer in office.I’m not worried about that extra chromosome crowd. I’m worried about the Rethugs regaining control in 08 and continuing their destruction of our democracy.
Tom Reynolds, WNY’s human colostomy bag
Allan Uthman
Congressman Tom Reynolds is a shameless liar. This may sound like an opinion to you, but it’s actually a demonstrable fact. I can prove it. All I need for evidence is his latest campaign ads in his bid for reelection in the 26th district. As chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Reynolds is in charge of getting the House Republican majority reelected, so his own campaign ads can be seen as indicators of his national campaign strategy in a very tough season for Republicans. For instance, Reynolds has chosen not to identify the party he belongs to in any of his ads, and a lot of his brethren have followed suit. But that’s just the beginning.
I’m not worried about them, really, but I want these bastids knocked down as far as they can go, for a few reasons. One, I don’t want them growing back any too fast. And two, I want real liberals to be encouraged to run for office, and do the right things. And I also want asshole DINOs like Liebermann to driven out of office, and never play their bullshit games again.
:nana:i knew what you meant!
:nuts:couldnt help myself though
One and one, we`re having some fun,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Two and two, I took of my shoes,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Three and three, she undressed me,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night…………
I dunno cnick, that extra chromosome crowd most always have a lot of weapons. 😮
What you’re playing now is just fine :peace:
:tongue:i think i would vote against my congressman even if i knew i was the deciding vote.
Hey sheeple!:sheep:
:pup:
:joe:
Who’s yours again, Sean? What CD are you in? Did Jimmy Griffin finally die?
Brian Higgins:tommygun:
WASHINGTON – The House approved legislation Wednesday to give the Bush administration authority to interrogate and prosecute terrorism detainees, moving President Bush to the edge of a pre-election victory with a key piece of his anti-terrorism plan.
The mostly party-line, 253-168 vote in the Republican-run House prompted bitter charges afterward by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., that opposition Democrats were coddling terrorists, perhaps foreshadowing campaign attack ads to come. Democrats responded that the GOP leader was trying to provoke fear.
Despite the largely party line vote, Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, joined Republican Reps. John R. “Randy” Kuhl Jr. of Bath and Thomas M. Reynolds of Clarence in voting for the legislation. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, D-Fairport, voted against it.
he is a tool!
Ha, so, Nellie the :pup: has started burying some of the treats I give her. The other dogs get to have a biscuit hunt now! :tongue::rofl2:
Hey cnickthomas…missed your show last night.
Pretty good playlist.:nod:
I’d skype with you but I left my voice upstairs!:joe:
Start a write-in campaign for Scott Norwood in the NY 27th. :fist:
Not a bad website for this Higgins, I’ll give him that.
It’s cool blue. If anyone wants to skype with me. I am cnickthomas. We can all bitch together here and listen in. http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
Maybe this evening, Cnick, I gotta get ready for my ceramic class.
Would “Backfield in Motion”:ear: fit cnick?
Sean, the Jeffy the Penguin thing is getting really old. Now that you’re a year older, maybe you can develop a more mature alter ego.
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:penguin:i think they are on to me on the whld1270 site:paranoid:
hey cnick I :ear:can’t really hear what you said to me over the bubla!
You’re invited to the party. Go here to join in on the fun. Maybe a gangbang or two? http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
You have to like to pick up shit, Cnick! I just now picked up the yard, oh BOY! :yuck: But chihuahua poo is little. You could probably even teach them to use a litter box! :rofl2:
Thanks cnick I was just about to go download it!
You caught me just in time…
Ooooh! Hey Cnick, if I sent you some music files could you play them? I have been dying for you all to hear this Au Pairs Anthology I got. I don’t have time now, but maybe later today. Let me know where to email.
:bf::bf::bf:
Hall and Oates! :rofl2: OMG, that takes me back to a more innocent and happy time. 🙁
:barf:working families endorsed Higgins
Hey Cnick, do you have some really early Depeche Mode like, stuff from “A Broken Frame” and that era?
sure enough Kristapea
audio files welcome
:nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana:
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research:
Davis 50%
Reynolds 42%
n=522, October 3-4
client: Jack Davis
Survey USA
Davis 50%
Reynolds 45%
n=482
client: WGRZ-TV
Kristapea I don’t have my “Broken Frame” CD loaded in iTunes. Is this okay for now?
:crap:i drove hall and oates audio equipment out to california two summers ago
ooooh, The “something” Sisters. If I could only remember the credits to Back to the Future. I remember seeing it then. So long ago though.
It’s not The Andrew Sisters
Wow this is getting my heart going:pup::banana::banana::bf::bf:!!!
And the answer is: “The Chordettes.”
Hey, I got a great idea for a call in show, Cnick or PJ. Play muzak versions of popular songs and have people try to guess who it is. It’s really quite difficult. How many times have you been in a grocery store and a muzak version of something you knew very well was on and it drove you nuts trying to remember who it was? Me and my friend Tom used to play that game.
Hi/Bye….Ill be back…have to get the basement snake from the hospital and have been busy writing this AM…so time is gone for now…but basement snake rises from the ashes.
My skype phone has to charge for 14 hours and desktop computer is going through tests…ugh….tech hell over here…but I got osme good HD and Mem tests if anyone needs em…
Blue, will be looking into lodging in mass when I get back too….
:cat:i would play with everyone but i am in a panera bread and it is busy
Oooh, observational moment. That could be a good way to cross publicize the radio and the blog. Ask a question on the air and only give the answer on the blog to get your listeners to go to the blog.
Okay, I really gotta get going now, later blogsibs and thanks for the audio entertainment this morning! :pup:
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, The cARPENTERS!
Karen um…what’s her face…I am old:doh:
5 points to Kristapea. Coolness
I don’t even remember this song but then I was never a fan…
Hey going to see tyger Thom today…
with Travis and Roxie:knit:
:fire:
I’ve never actually heard the Carpenters version, I used to have a box set of singles of a bunch of bands cover Carpenters songs. Babes in Toyland did that one.
Cat Stevens, Morning Has Broken Now I REQALLY gotta go!
Awww…Cat:cat:!
:rant1:we need more people on this site so that i can have people to hang out with in more places!
Can’t hear you at all!
Concentrate a bit on the Left Coast seanie sean!
hmm
It is too easy for me to cheat cnick with iTunes.
This is Seanie Sean’s theme song or mine!
huh whats my theme song?
I gotta go clean up my act! See you…Thanks for the jumpstart cnick!
:love::pup:
Answer was: The Wanderer -Dion
Welcome blue, come back again!
:nana:i dont wander!
:fire:ok im out dane cook movie starts in 10 minutes
:fu:
okay, my little internet radio station is signing off right now. I’m cooking dinner and I don’t wanna burn down the house. So later folks!
The reimplementation of a draft would solve several problems
1. If it demanded mandatory service for two years and reserve status for another five years for everyone ( male and female) sometime between the ages of lets say 18 and 24 or some alternate public service if the person was not physically able to serve it would make the kids of the elite get their dainty hands dirty and would teach a lot of people that any organization is only as strong as its weakest member and that you must work as a team not as individuals.
2. Politically inspired wars would become unpopular a lot sooner
3. You would have about three times the number of people in the military as we have today and probably five times the number in the reserves so if you really had to fight someone you might be able to do it.
4. There would be enough people in the active military such that they could get rid of privatization of the logistic services and reduce if not eliminate the waste and corruption that has caused.
5. The number of people in the military that are there just to legally kill and break things would be drastically reduced.
The thugs will of course find loop holes to keep their kids from serving.. Maybe it will show them for what they are to the people who did serve. ( and they would now know how to use an assault rifle) :eek::eek:
There was a draft during the Viet Nam war. The college kids at the time were very against the war as was the left. But, the right supported it. That war went on for a very long time with the support of the majority of Americans. I believe 58,000 soldiers died in Viet Nam.
From Wikipedia:
Death tolls for the Viet Nam War.
South Vietnamese dead: 230,000
South Vietnamese wounded: 300,000
US dead: 58,209
US wounded: 153,303
South Korean dead: 5,000
South Korean wounded: 11,000[3]
Australian dead: 520
Australian wounded: 3,131
New Zealand dead: 38
New Zealand wounded: 187
Philippines dead: 99
Thailand dead: 351 North Vietnamese and NLF dead: 1,100,000
North Vietnamese and NLF wounded: 600,000
Chinese dead: 1,100
Chinese wounded: 4,200
Soviet Union 16 killed
North Korea 36+ killed
Civilian dead (total Vietnamese): 2-4,000,000
Ha, I found an imac at a yardsale for $50, but I talked my friend into buying it. I think I might need something newer. But he may get frustrated with it and then I’ll buy it from him. Also not sure I’m ready for more frustration in transfering files and getting it online after the hastle I just went through with this thing and the cable and the dsl 😡
Actually, for quite a while, the college kids were big supporters of the Vietnam war, because they didn’t have to go. That changed after a while, once the youth of that era left the remnants of the fifties behind.
Oh, if only I could hear Angus report about this.
You would have the same problems with a draft that we had during Vietnam. Rich people (of either party) would find a way for their kids to opt out, and you would have an army full of the poor and underprivileged. Only if there was a way to legislate around this would a draft be feasible.
Did anyone else catch NOW on PBS last night? They did a piece on Foley and the fallout it’s causing for the Repigs. Melanie Sloan, Franken’s Tuesday regular, was one of the interviewees, since the story initially broke through her office. Check it out if your local PBS station reruns it this weekend.
Not to mention that Melanie is worth checking out herself. :hubba:
Hey PJ, ABC was broadcasting the Syracuse game earlier this afternoon, but I know you weren’t watching since it was on ABC. 😀
Oh, and don’t forget, until the 1972 election, until you were 21, you were “old enough to kill, but not for votin’.”
Bad game, Kevin. Playing a team that didn’t totally suck didn’t work out too well. No, didn’t watch. I had it on the radio, but had to turn that off, too, before I broke something.
Well, there was a draft deferment for Vietnam, if you were in college, and of course females weren’t drafted. So, step one would be no deferments, no exclusions for females. Of course, rich and connected daddy will always be able to get ther kids out of going – or at least into the cushier service. But many wealthy families, once upon a time, considered it their duty to enlist and serve in the military. Look at the Kennedys. Say what you want about the, but the oldest son was killed in the war, and JFK served with distinction, RFK was in the Navy, and Teddy served in the Army. Bush the first served. John Kerry served. Al Gore served. But if you look at Bushco, almost none of them served.
Re #34 Lithium — I recently had a patient in the hospital — young woman in her 20’s w/ history of bipolar who lost a kidney because of Lithium toxicity. Had a failed transplant and in renal failure on hemodialysis in her late 20’s. :omg: 😮 Very scary. Guess her MD wasn’t monitoring her Lithium blood levels closely enough or she was not taking it according to directions — whatever — very very scary. :reaper:
All drugs are dangerous and all are toxic & need to be used with great care and mindfulness when needed. Drug companies have an iron grip on how medicine is practiced in this country because they fund so much of the “education” in medical schools. It’s not about making people healthy, it’s about keeping them sick so that more $$$$ can be made. :yuck:
Just be very careful about any meds you need to take, Blogsibs, and make sure you are fully informed about side effects and interactions with food and other drugs. You don’t want to blow out your kidneys or liver which are the main mechanisms that clear drugs from your system after they are finished doing whatever they d
Good post, Granny. Yeah, drugs can be wonderful (and life-saving) things but there are some that cause as many problems as they help and lithium is one. I’m not “against” drugs, but I agree with you about pharmaceutical companies and their motivations/the way they operate and dispense things. There is a real motivation to make a profit and not to heal the sick…perhaps not with individual people in the profession but with the profession itself and how it’s set up. That affects the type of drugs that are developed and dispensed. There’s a real conflict of interest when greed for money is overly connected to anything in the healing profession.
Hey, Kevin, I didn’t realize that Melanie Sloan was Al’s Tuesday “regular.” :hubba:
Ecuador Candidate Calls Bush ‘Dimwitted’
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By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press Writer
September 27,2006 | QUITO, Ecuador — The leftist presidential front-runner in Ecuador said Wednesday that the devil should be insulted by comparisons to President Bush, whom he called a “dimwitted” leader who has done “great damage” to the world.
Rafael Correa, speaking to Channel 8 television, referred to a U.N. speech last week by his friend, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who caused an uproar in the United States by calling Bush “the devil.”
“Calling Bush the devil is offending the devil,” said Correa, a U.S.-trained economist who leads 12 other candidates in polls ahead of the Oct. 15 election. He said “the devil is evil, but intelligent.”
“I believe Bush is a tremendously dimwitted president who has done great damage to his country and to the world,” Correa said.
Correa, who has been highly critical of free market policies advocated by Washington, said he merely expressed “personal opinions” and promised that if elected, “between states and at the level of leaders, the most absolute respect would be shown.”
Correa, who earned a doctorate from the University of Illinois, said his opinion of Bush did not extend to the American people, for whom he feels great affection. He said he lived in the United States when Bush won the presidency in 2000 through what Correa called “trickery,” apparently referring to allegations of irregularities in Florida voting.
The U.S. Embassy did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment.
Recent polls show Correa backed by about 26 percent of likely voters, 7 points ahead of his closest challenger Leon Roldos, a center-left former vice president.
Correa, 43, who served four months as economy minister under outgoing President Alfredo Palacio, has rattled markets with pledges to slash Ecuador’s foreign debt payments — either through negotiation or a moratorium.
Merrill Lynch on Tuesday cut its recommendation on Ecuador’s external debt to underweight from market weight amid a sell-off by jittery bondholders.
Correa has expressed friendship with Chavez and says he visited the home of the Venezuelan leader’s parents in August.
If no candidate wins more than half the vote — or at least 40 percent with a 10-percentage point advantage over the nearest challenger — a runoff will be held on Nov. 26 between the two top finishers.
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Bang, Bang! Kiss, Kiss!
Wargasms and Orgasms
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Sex scandals, at least in societies dominated by guilt-sodden Protestants, fulfill the therapeutic function usually attributed to pleasant or exciting sex: exploration of intimate areas of political life, surfacing “issues” normally repressed. America can’t talk about Iraq, where Americans boys are raping 14-year-old girls and shooting families at close range, can’t talk about torture, so instead we focus on what former Republican Representative Mark Foley wrote to a page about boxer shorts and their contents. What’s the other option? Pack a tube of sex lubricant, holster up, grab a box of ammo and head for the Amish schoolhouse.
Here’s Foley (code-named Maf54) in instant message mode in April, 2003:
Maf54: I miss you
Teen: ya me too
Maf54: we are still voting
Maf54: you miss me too.
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http://www.counterpunch.org
Most certainly the country has been ripe for a political sex scandal
That’s true, of course. The democrats have been waiting to get someone on the right with sex – revenge for Wild Bill, and the public does love it. Personally I’d rather they got the right on real issues but that’s not how this country is built
What Cynthia McKinney Means to Me
by Mark Donham
http://www.counterpunch.org/donham10072006.html
Back on the Air
Go here to listen now,
http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
It is not how our leaders and their pundits want things to be. People would (and do) readily grasp the hypocrisy if “mainstream” culture were more honest.
honesty about sex, yeah, right. That’s why these scandals work, people are “scandalized” because they’re projecting. Jung would say their shadow is not integraed. It’s classic psychology at work
#2 Auburn lost to Arkansas. Hmm, safe to say their not #2 n e more
This gives new meaning to being in the closet:
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, in town for a fund-raiser for Sen. Rick Santorum, had a close encounter with a large group of anti-Republican protesters as he was making his way to the Duquesne Club, Downtown.
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“Jeb, go home,” they shouted.
Mr. Bush, accompanied by a security guard and a female aide, made a slow retreat toward the T-station at Wood Street.
Once in the subway station, Mr. Bush scurried to the escalators and descended to the mezzanine level, Mr. Vandenburgh said.
By now, Mr. Bush was cornered. He was surrounded by signs that said “Pittsburgh is a Santorum Free Zone,” “Honk if you’re sick of Rick,” and a crowd growing increasingly louder, according to Mr. Vandenburgh.
snip
As a precaution, the governor was ushered into a T-station supply closet and stayed there until the crowd left.
http://tinyurl.com/qyjju
ABC may have redeemed itself just enough for me to justify watching “Lost”, but that’s it. I can’t give up my “Lost.” I tried. But nodda nother thing, just “Lost.”
I have to say, I don’t think the Foley thing is about sex. I think it’s about parents who are deeply troubled that the folks who are supposed to be looking out for a bunch of high school kids away from home, are instead looking out for their political power. This is on top of people finally realizing that Iraq was not only built on an inverted pyramid of lies, and has been run about as incompetently as anything could be run, which is something people began to see only after they witnessed the appaling indifference and incompetence of Katrina.
Also, it’s a hell of a lot easier for people to understand. I mean, Abramoff, Indian clients, golf trips, money trails…. It’s not a simple thing to follow. One thing the Foley story is definitely not, is hard to follow.
newsweek poll via buzzflash: Bush down to 33% approval.
and he’s lost Laura and the dog. :sammy:
“Calling Bush the devil is offending the devil,”
Amen. So to speak.
I was wondering on this Skype thing. Can more than two people talk to one another at the same time? Like a conference call?
I think a liberal confessional is in order here. :no:
That’s hilarious that Jeb had to hide in a closet. I hope he soiled himself or at least leaked a little. I hope he was frightened.
But I just can’t give up “Lost!” I tried. Really I did.
If this is as bad as it sounds, Carville better beef up his security detail.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/oct/07/did_carville_tip_bush_off_to_kerry_strategy_woodward
Video of Malloy on M$RNC
http://tinyurl.com/s9gax
:eek::eek:
Yeah, cnick, you can do conference calls on skype.
Hey, Kevin, I didn’t realize that Melanie Sloan was Al’s Tuesday “regular.” :hubba:
Comment by pjsauter — October 7, 2006 @ 4:25 pm
Don’t tell Franni.
And DEFINITELY don’t tell Franni that David Brock is Al’s Wednesday “regular.”
:rofl2:
In other sad news, I guess misery loves company on the college scoreboard today.
Cincinnati 20
Akron 14
I hope the Zips really enjoyed going to a bowl last year, because it looks like the toilet bowl for them this season unless they just about win out.
September 27,2006 | QUITO, Ecuador — The leftist presidential front-runner in Ecuador said Wednesday that the devil should be insulted by comparisons to President Bush, whom he called a “dimwitted” leader who has done “great damage” to the world.
Rafael Correa, speaking to Channel 8 television, referred to a U.N. speech last week by his friend, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who caused an uproar in the United States by calling Bush “the devil.”
“Calling Bush the devil is offending the devil,” said Correa, a U.S.-trained economist who leads 12 other candidates in polls ahead of the Oct. 15 election. He said “the devil is evil, but intelligent.”
“I believe Bush is a tremendously dimwitted president who has done great damage to his country and to the world,” Correa said.
Comment by NickiRose — October 7, 2006 @ 4:39 pm
:rofl2:
So if Correa mysteriously disappears next week, I guess we’ll know why.
Cool PJ, maybe we can get a few people together one evening and broadcast the conversation to the blog listeners.
newsweek poll via buzzflash: Bush down to 33% approval.
and he’s lost Laura and the dog.
Comment by cresttwo — October 7, 2006 @ 5:35 pm
http://tinyurl.com/jagb7
:rofl2:
I wish these leftist leaders would hush till after the November elections. I don’t want to give Bush lovers any reason to go to the polls.
OK, I messed up my previous post, and I can’t get in to edit it. The link was to a very funny cartoon on Slate yesterday.
It showed Bush in the White House with the quote about Laura and Barney, and out on the lawn a dog is painting a protest sign that says “U.S. OUT OF IRAQ.”
:rofl2:
I must go now in pursuit of :40:
Man, these college kids next door have been partying since, like, 10 this morning. They’ve been listening to Dylan, Tom Waits and Patsy Cline. They’re still going strong too. Is it October Fest or something?
come on Laura, shut up this ignorant caller ….
:40:awwww i want to party!
malloy kicks ass! i cant wait till he resurfaces!
:nana:its bill clintons fault!
No, I guess they’ve been partying since last night! :nod: The lady behind me was saying some of the neighbors called the police finally because they thought they heard gunfire. It was firecrackers.
:shock:firecrackers in phoenix! uh oh there isnt a fire now is there:smack:
taibbi! ok later sheeple!
Honey, Im home!!…long day….
Nick, I listened to your podcast from Oct. 2nd in the car and was laughing hysterically…very, very good! I left a comment on your podcast page.
Thanks Melina. Wasn’t that the one with the noisy fan in the background? OnAir with Nick Thomas now broadcasting, http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u WTF
I over shot that phone booth, Shemanski. :bow::pent::sdavid:
Hey, so, I just went and saw “America;From freedom to Fascism” a documentary by Aaron Russo. It was pretty good at explaining the whole Federal Reserve system and how and why it was established and what it really is. Most of the film focused on the illegality of the income tax but also went into the other ways in which we are all enslaved and are about to be enslaved. Definitely a Libertarian point of view, but then I’m a bit sympathetic to that.
:rabbi:
:pent::sdavid:
Tempe & Tucson, Arizona
Opening October 6:
Harkins Valley Art
505 South Mill Ave.
Tempe, AZ 85281
(480) 446-7272
The Loft Cinema
3233 E. Speedway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 795-7777
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:jesus::peace::nixon:
:parrot::pirate:
:jesus:
cold in this room :cold: (puts on sweatshirt)
wow, that’s quite a spell…
I did see the Mets win btw :nixon:
Modern antisemitism appears first in France and Germany, then in Russia, after about 1870. Contrary to the prevalent opinion among Jewish socialists, I do not believe that its beginnings or its subsequent development until the present day can be ascribed to ‘capitalism’. On the contrary, in my opinion the successful capitalists in all countries were on the whole remarkably free from antisemitism, and the countries in which capitalism was established first and in its most extensive form – such as England and Belgium – were also those where antisemitism was far less widespread than elsewhere. (SHAHAK)
that’s probably true…
I should send you my copy of his book. :sdavid:
if you did I’d return it when I’m done.
it’s obvious that antisemitism was worse in places like the old Soviet Union for instance than in most capitalist societies
Jewish History, Jewish Religion (Hardcover)
by Israel Shahak (Author)
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Paperback $18.95 $12.89 30 used & new from $11.21
I think I paid $16.95 for a paperback in 1995. Never ran across a hardback copy.
sounds very interesting
It was, according to Shahaak, a different sort of anti-semitism. Based on the Jewish communities being mediators between the nobility and crown and the peasants.
he must have gotten so much flack because of the book
Read this:
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jewhis4.htm#The%20Weight%20of%20History
oh wow, ok
Shahak was a big shot scientist in Israel. Actually, he did not get near as much flack for the book as someone like Norman Finkelstein gets for similar writing in this country. There seems to be more honesty on the subject in Israel than there is here.
you’re right, there’s a real problem in the United States to talk honestly about the subject
:sdavid:
Lubavitcher,,,badee badee….badee…Buber……
:rabbi:
So, uh….who’s Awforrest?
good writing on the subject. I’ve always thought the idea of a concentrated state, even if it didn’t hurt other people in its creation (which is a separate) , was simply a bad idea and playing into bad stereotypes, placing too much stress on separation and differences
hmm. freaky picture. It scares me that such people should have children.
re # 230- That’s andy!
Oh…I knew that.
So where’s the picture of me and Hartmann, Heron?:banana:
The South Auditorium urban renewal project was run more or less in parallel with the State’s construction of the first (most southerly) part of Interstate 405, the Stadium Freeway. At the time the theory of the redevelopment people (shared in other parts of the country) was that if the government built a good-looking, neat, clean, orderly set of buildings (or had developers build them) then activity would follow.
One reason for the renewal project was that I-405 cut through Second and Third Avenues, and cut the neighborhood in two. The Jewish community on the north side of the freeway were cut off from the synagogues on the south side, and the freeway itself took out the Jewish Community Center about half a mile to the west. (It also forced out Mosler’s Bakery, which made the best bagels and challah in town.)
In effect PDC tore out one functioning community and hoped that another one would grow back in its place.
Street life demands a certain amount of sloppiness and wasted space — or more politely, a certain amount of unplanned area and flexible space, which can change its uses with the changing populations that visit it. South Auditorium didn’t allow for that kind of space, and the green spaces that were supposed to attract casual outdoor life morphed into not much more than outdoor hallways.
I seem to always be on the right page when I follow you
Someone wrote that the South Auditorium area is dead–like walking on the moon. Spot on description. They are gearing up to put yuppie condos in there now. I will do a psychogeographical study of the area soon. \\\\\\\\]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
yuppie condos…no..!!! Bagel stores and White Castle I tell you! Listen to meeeee